[X3lectric]

some other reading http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...tions.html

Try this xorg.conf instead.

http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae

I enabled under Section "Screen"

Code:

Option         "DynamicTwinView" "true"

and under device

Code:

Option         "TwinView" "on"
Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "clone"

So now it displays both to your laptop and external TV plugged in, this may only be what you needed.

it may be possible that this either works or that you may need to disable

Section "Screen"

Code:

Option         "DynamicTwinView" "false"

just to test really, Im playing blind here.

[virre]

some other reading http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...tions.html

Try this xorg.conf instead.

http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae

I enabled under Section "Screen"

Code:

Option         "DynamicTwinView" "true"

and under device

Code:

Option         "TwinView" "on"
Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "clone"

So now it displays both to your laptop and external TV plugged in, this may only be what you needed.

it may be possible that this either works or that you may need to disable

Section "Screen"

Code:

Option         "DynamicTwinView" "false"

just to test really, Im playing blind here.

So would the command for me go something like this?

Code:

wget "http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae" -O ~/nvidia-xorg.conf
sudo bash -c "tr -d \\r < ~/nvidia-xorg.conf > /etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Remember, my Linux skills are on a scale of 10 maybe at 0, or 0,5 at the best


EDIT: Hmm, just noticed that your paste have two columns with numbers: http://pastebin.com/Aq2hWjSY . Will all those also get imported with the above wget command?

[X3lectric]

mine are 1 in a scale to 10 so meh?! I just go research or read about it.

BTW NEW stable drivers are up 275.21 and nvidia-settings.... just in case you wanna upgarde drivers again keeping it up to date

honestly off the top of my head that wget looks ok.

http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae looks ok here but hey idk what happened

try this one http://paste.ubuntu.com/650494/

[virre]

mine are 1 in a scale to 10 so meh?! I just go research or read about it.

BTW NEW stable drivers are up 275.21 and nvidia-settings.... just in case you wanna upgarde drivers again keeping it up to date

honestly off the top of my head that wget looks ok.

http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae looks ok here but hey idk what happened

try this one http://paste.ubuntu.com/650494/

I first ran the following to get the latest Nvidia drivers and settings:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-iquik/nvidia-vpau
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings libvdpau1 libvdpau-dev

Then pasted in the following in xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/CdsUTWae

I now have video on both screens!

However, the most below part on xbmc doesn't show on the external screen. The top, right and left are identical to the picture on the internal monitor though.

Checked in the video output settings and it says 1920x1200 instead of 1920x1080, not sure if this has something to do with that?

I've tried to change "DynamicTwinView" to "false" but couldn't find any difference, so now I have changed it back to "True"

Don't know it is of any help, but i have the Pioneer KRP-500A TV, which should support anything you feed it with.
I've tried the different modes on the TV, anything from Wide and Full to Dot-By-Dot. The later usually fixes all these kind of "issues", but not this time.


EDIT:

These are the modes supported by my TV:

Code:

720(1440) x 576i@50 Hz
720 x 576p@50 Hz
1280 x 720p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080i@50 Hz
720(1440) x 480i@59,94 Hz/60 Hz
720 x 480p@59,94 Hz/60 Hz
1280 x 720p@59,94 Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080i@59,94 Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080p@24 Hz
1920 x 1080p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080p@60 Hz

[X3lectric]

I doubt very very much that your TV supports 1920x1200 or even 1920x1280 NO laptop screen form Dell/any laptop manufacturer/vendor exceeds 1920x1200, your TV wont.

so thats prolly why its doing this...

I googled this, bless google and those who use it...

http://www.mls-software.com/xbmcdual.html

now the settings vary for both screen and because xbmc-live you dont benefit from UI interfaces to configure your stuff and still require manual tweaking

this is what i was looking at.

Code:

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Screen0"
     Device         "Device0"
     Monitor        "Monitor0"
     DefaultDepth    24
     Option         "TwinView" "1"
     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
     Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0:1920x1080 +0+0,DFP-1:1920x1080 +0+0"

but thats looking at that xorg and the guys specific hardware... Which may not mean a definite fix for your issue.

perhaps its even simpler but atm I dont have any laptops to play with and test this, so Im clutching at straws.

The definate thing I know is that its your laptop resolution vs tv resolution because its being cloned....

What I would say is now on your TV goto picture settings and instead of 16:9 or letterbox or whatever its on select just scan or scan or whatever sound like it.

lets see if this gets you closer.

[X3lectric]

ok I found a post that may help but you gonna have to figure it out cause I cant test this stuff.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=93249

It apparently works but you may need to adapt the current xorg keeping all the goodness and adding the making it work both ways "fix"

[X3lectric]

ok you been MIA for a bit but the posts of interest are http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=791371&postcount=3 and similar, they reported success with that.

It should be relatively easy to use your current xorg run those commands and alter it accordlingly, hopefully by now you know what each part of xorg does what.

anyways, vba99 seems to have it licked and others after him that modified it to work with their machines.